DocumentCode
824761
Title
Ellipticity statistic as measure of MIMO multipath richness
Author
Salo, J. ; Suvikunnas, P. ; El-Sallabi, H.M. ; Vainikainen, P.
Author_Institution
IDC SMARAD/Radio Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland
Volume
42
Issue
3
fYear
2006
Firstpage
160
Lastpage
162
Abstract
´Multipath richness´ characterises the capability of a propagation environment to support parallel communication modes. The so-called ellipticity statistic is proposed as a measure of multipath richness of a MIMO radio channel. A measurement example clarifies the proposed figure of merit.
Keywords
MIMO systems; multipath channels; radiowave propagation; statistical analysis; wireless channels; MIMO multipath richness; MIMO radio channels; ellipticity statistic; parallel communication modes;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20063847
Filename
1593303
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